Smoking-pipe.



J. A. IRVING.

SMOKING PIPE.

APPLICATION FILED JULY [8. 1911.

1 ,280,Q39. Patented Sept. 24, 1918.

ATTORNEYS s'rarns PA rice.

JAMES ALBERT IRVING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y. ASSIGNOR TO THE BREECHLOADERPIPE COMPANY, INC., OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

SMOKING-PIPE.

Specification of Letters Patent. i

"Application filed J u1y'18, 1917. SrialNo. 181,301.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, J AMES ALBERT InvINe, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a reeldent of the city-of New York, borough of Manhattan, inthe county and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedSmoking-Pipe, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention has for its object to provide a breech loading smokingpipehaving a body either horizontal or upright with an opening extendingfrom the breech through the bowl to the draft passage. A plug isemployed for closing the breech, the said plug being longitudinal forthe horizontal body, andin angular form for the upright body, andbeingmounted on thestem, the longitudinal and vertical openings in thestem extending through the plug into the breech and being normallycovered within the breech by a disk movably mounted on the end of theplug, said disk being attached forthe purpose of preventing particles oftobacco from being drawn into and clogging the vertical and longitudinalopenings inthe plug and stem and also for the purpose of directing thedraft to the lower part or bottom of the horizontal bowl to insure theconsumption of the entirecharge of tobacco, communication between thebowl of the pipe and the vertical and longitudinal openings in the plugand stem being afforded around the lower part of the disk in thehorizontal body and around the sides of the disk in the upright bodythrough cut-away slots in the end of the plug radially to said verticalor longitudinal openings.

Additional objects of the invention will appear in the followingspecification in which the preferred form of the invention is disclosed.

In the drawings similar reference characters denote similar parts in allthe views, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation showing one form of mypipe, parts being illustrated in section to show the construction;

Fig. 2 is an end view of the plug on the pipe stem;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a portion of the pipe stem and the plugwith the disk moved on its pivot to uncover the face of the plug;

Fig. 4 is a side elevation showing a modified form of the invention,parts being illustrated in section to show the construction; Fig. 5 is afragmentary view illustrating the plug used in the constructionillustrated in Fig. 4:, with the disk moved to uncover the opening inthe plug; and

Fig. 6 is a sectional view illustrating another modified form of theinvention.

By referring to the drawings it will be seen that the pipe has a body 10with an opening 11 extending from its draft passage 12 to its breech 13,at which the pipe is loaded: In connection with this body, a stem 14 isprovided having a plug 15, there being a longitudinal opening 16 in thepipe stem 14 which extends through the said plug. Pivoted eccentricallyto the plug 15 there is a disk 17 which when in normal position coversthe longitudinal opening at the face of the plug 15. Communication isafforded from the bowl of the pipe be tween its breech 13 and its draftpassage 12, and the longitudinal opening 16 in the pipe stem 14, througha cutaway portion 18 at the face of the plug 15, which forms a radialpassage. 1 i

It will be understood that when using the pipe it may be filled at itsbreech 13, and with. the disk 17 disposed in the 'position illustratedin Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings the plug may be introduced in thebreech 13 of the pipe body to push the tobacco forwardly. When the pipeis smoked, the smoke may be drawn around the disk 17 and through thepassage 18 to the longitudinal opening 16. The disk 17 prevents thetobacco from entering the longitudinal passage 16, and it also directsthe draft to the lower portion of the bowl of the'horizontal pipe. Whenit is desired to clean the longitudinal passage 16 in the pipe, the plug15 is removed from the breech 13 of the body 10, when the disk 17 ismoved to the position indicated in Fig. 3 of the drawings, when a pipecleaner may be readily introduced in the longitudinal opening.

In the modified form of the invention illustrated in Fig. 4 of thedrawings, the plug 15 is disposed vertically, so that it may beintroduced into the breech 13 of the pipe body 10 the breech 13 beingdisposed at the bottom of the said .pipe body. In Figs. 4 and 5 of thedrawings two projec tions 19 are shown on the face 20 of the plug 15 Adisk 17 is pivoted to one of the projections 19 and is adapted to seaton the other projection 19 when the disk is in position for theintroduction of the plug in the breech of the pipe.

In the modified form of the invention illustrated in Fig. 6 of thedrawings, the breech 13 is disposed at the bottom of the body 10", andthe draft. opening 12 is disposed laterally, it being possible to rotatethe body 1O on the plug 15" of the pipe stem with reference to thedirection of the wind. In other respects the modified forms of theinvention illustrated in Figs. 4:, 5 and 6 correspond with the form ofthe invention illustrated in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

In the forms of the invention shown in Figs. 4, 5 and 6 the opening 16in the pipe stem is angular.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent:

1. A pipe having a body with a draft passage and an openingextendingfrom the breech of the body through the bowl to the draft passage, astem having a longitudinal opening with a plug through which thelongitudinal opening extends, for closing the breech of the pipe, and adisk movably mounted on the face of the plug and spaced from a portionof the said face, for the purpose specified.

2. A pipe having a body with a draft passage and an opening extendingfrom the breech of the pipe through the bowl to the draft passage, astem having a longitudinal opening with a plug for closing the breech ofthe pipe, and a disk disposed at the face of the plug and pivotedeccentrically to the plug, the disk being spaced from a portion Copiesof this patent may be obtained for of the face of the plug, for thepurpose specified.

3. A pipe having a body with a draft passage and an opening extendingfrom the breech of the pipe through the bowl in one direction to thedraft passage, a stem having a longitudinal opening with a plug throughwhich the longitudinal opening extends, the plug being normally disposedin the breech of the pipe for closing the latter and having in its facea passage extending in the other direction from the longitudinal openingto its periphery, and a disk mounted against the face of the plug spacedfrom the second mentioned passage and closing communication from thebody of the pipe to the plug at all other points.

1. A pipe having a body with a draft passage and an opening extendingfrom the breech of the pipe through the bowl to the draft passage, astem having a longitudinal opening with a plug through which thelongitudinal opening extends, the plug being normally disposed inthebreech of the pipe for closing the latter and having in its face aradial passage, and a disk pivoted eccentrically to the face of theplug.

5. A pipe having a bodywith a draft passage and an opening extendingfrom its breech at its bottom to the draftpass-age at its side, a. stemhaving a longitudinal opening with a plug disposed at an angle to thebody of the stem and through which the opening in the stem extends, theplug normally closing the pipe breech, the body of the pipe beingrotatable on the plug, and a disk movably mounted at the face of theplug and spaced from a portion of the said face, for thepurposespecified.

JAMES ALBERT IRVING.

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